Bottle.



B. M. MORTON.

BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR.15, 1911.

Patented Dec. 2, 1913.

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BOTTLE,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec, 2, 1913.

Application filed March 15, 1911. Serial No. 614,606.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BURRIS M. MORTON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Koshkonong, in the county of Oregon and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottles, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the .accom-v panying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in bottles.

The primary object of my invention is to providea prismatic shaped bot-tle especially adapted to contain poison, constructed so that even in grasping it in the dark, absent mindedly or through mistake, a person will at once know by its shape that it is the poison bottle.

Another object is to provide a bot-tle with a breast which drains into a hollow foot extension so that any of the poison dripping from the neck will be collected within the foot extension.

A further object is to provide atriangular liquid container constructed so that the same cannot be handled without clasping one or more of the sharp edges of the same.

A still further object is to provide a bottle with a neck having an opening square in cross section arranged to receive a stopper also square in cross section.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consist-s in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and finally pointed out in the appended claim, it being further understood that changes in the specific structure shown and described may be made within the scope of the claim, with out departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, and in which like numerals of reference indicate similar parts in the several views: Figure 1, shows a side elevation with portions broken away of a poison bottle embodying my invention. Fig. 2 shows a front view of the bottle, and Fig. 3, a top view of the bottle, with the stopper removed.

Many lives have been sacrificed through mistakes made in using the wrong bottle in preparing prescriptions and administering medicines.

In my present invention I provide a bottle or liquid container which cannot be mistaken even in the dark or accidentally for a hot-tle of ordinary construction.

In carrying out the object of my invention I construct a three-cornered bottle in cross section resembling a right angle triangle with the face opposite the right angle forming the front or label receiving face. The two faces forming the right angles or sides are of similar area and are marked 2 and 3 in the drawings. The upper edge of the sides are skirted by a half round skirting bead 4, which is continued down along the edge of the front face 1, as shown at 5. Extending from the lower end of the face 1, is the triangular foot extension 6, the upper surface 7, of which is dished. The foot extension 6, and the bottle proper form a square, as shown in Fig. 3.

The neck 8, of the bottle is square and slightly tapering with a square stopper opening to receive the stopper 9, which is also square in cross section. In the use of the bottle should any of the contents drip from the neck, it will drain from the curved breast down the front 1, and be collected within the disk 7, of the foot 6. In this way no injury will be done to the paint or cloth upon the table, counter or shelf hold-- ing the bottle.

The bottles can be compactly packed in placing them with their ends reversed, face to face, with an intervening packing layer. The face 1, of the bottle preferably has the word poison in raised letters. The bottles are made in various sizes. After having seen the bottle a person grasping the same in the dark or absent mindedly will at once be made aware of the fact that it is the poison bottle that is being handled, because in grasp-ing the bottle the fingers must clasp one or more of the sharp corners of the bottle. The breast of the bottle slopes toward the face extending from the foot extension as shown in Fig. 1.

From the foregoing it will be seen that I provide a liquid container in the form of a bottle prismatic in cross section having an integral hollow prismatic foot extension, said extension and bottle forming a square. The upper portion of said extension being dished to form a receptacle but in addition performing a double function in that the extension adds stability to the bottle.

While I have mentioned the bottle as being a liquid container, it is of course understood that the same can also contain powders or other solids.

As shown in Fig. 3, the foot and bottle form a parallelogram having four equal sides. The foot extension is also arranged to hold part of the contents of the bottle though if desired the foot extension may be oi solid material.

Having thus described my said invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is A bottle prismatic in cross section having an integral hollow prismatic shaped foot extension, said extension and bottle forming a square, the upper portion of said extension being dished to form a receptacle, the breast portion 01": the bottle sloping toward the face extending from said foot extension, the outer edge of said breast having a skirting bead, arranged as shown. I

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

BURRIS M. MORTON.

Witnesses T. J. RICHARDSON, D. F. GALLAHAN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. i 

